Almost everything you said right there is incorrect. Let’s start:
Q. Overall, what percentage of level 60 players do you think have killed Ragnaros?
A. I don’t have firm statistics, but my gut feeling is around 25 percent.
Q. And what about Nefarian?
A. From the gut, I’d say maybe 15 percent.
That was in May of 2006, long before Vanilla even ended.
Here’s an archive of posts, you can scroll back a few pages and see a whole bunch of complaints about honor:
There’s WAY more to find on the wayback machine but it’s honestly not worth my time since no amount of facts will convince you of the truth.